DENVER AND RIO GRANDE WESTERN RAILROAD CO. v. UNITED STATES

Civ. A. No. 9205.

255 F.Supp. 704 (1966)

The DENVER AND RIO GRANDE WESTERN RAILROAD COMPANY, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company, St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company, St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company of Texas, and Southern Pacific Company, Plaintiffs, and Ringsby Truck Lines, Inc., et al., Intervening Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America and Interstate Commerce Commission, Defendants. and Railway Express Agency, Incorporated, and the Greyhound Corporation, Intervening Defendants.

United States District Court D. Colorado.

April 11, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lee, Bryans, Kelly & Stansfield, Robert S. Gast, Jr., Royce D. Sickler, and T. A. White, Denver, Colo., R. K. Knowlton, Chicago, Ill., Harry B. LaTourette and C. W. Fiddes, Tyler, Tex., and Jeremiah C. Waterman, Washington, D. C., for plaintiffs.

David Axelrod, Axelrod, Goodman & Steiner, Chicago, Ill., Berl L. Bernhard, Eugene T. Liipfert (of Verner, Liipfert & Bernhard) and Ronald B. Natalie, Washington, D. C., and Edward T. Lyons, Jr., Jones, Meiklejohn, Kehl & Lyons, Denver, Colo., for intervening plaintiffs Ringsby Truck Lines, Inc., Navajo Freight Lines, Inc., Denver Chicago Trucking Company, Inc., Illinois-California Express, Inc., Pacific Intermountain Express Co., Transcon Lines, Watson-Wilson Transportation System, Inc., Western Gillette, Inc., and Consolidated Copperstate Lines.

Richard J. Sigmon, Peter T. Beardsley, Harry J. Jordan, R. Edwin Brady, Roland Rice, and Rice, Carpenter & Carraway, Washington, D. C., for intervening plaintiffs American Trucking Ass'ns, Inc., and Regular Common Carrier Conference.

William H. Dempsey, Jr., Martin J. Flynn, Harry C. Ames, and Giles Morrow, Washington, D. C., and Edward T. Lyons, Jr., Denver, Colo., Shea & Gardner, Washington, D. C., of counsel, for intervening plaintiff Freight Forwarders Institute.

Warren A. Goff, Dallas, Tex., and John R. Barry, Denver, Colo., for intervening plaintiffs Transcontinental Bus System, Inc., American Buslines, Inc., Arkansas Motor Coaches Ltd., Inc., Bayshore Bus Lines, Inc., Continental Bus System, Inc., Continental Crescent Lines, Inc., Continental Panhandle Lines, Inc., Continental Southern Lines, Inc., Continental Tennessee Lines, Inc., Denver-Colorado Springs-Pueblo Motorway, Denver-Salt Lake-Pacific Stages, Inc., Continental Pacific Lines, Inc., Midwest Buslines, Inc., Smoky Mountain Stages, Inc., Tennessee Trailways, Inc., Union Bus Lines, Inc., and Muscatine, Davenport & Clinton Bus Co.

Robert L. Wright, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., and John H. D. Wigger, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., and Lawrence M. Henry, U. S. Atty., Denver, Colo., filed an answer for defendant United States neither supporting nor opposing the action of the Interstate Commerce Commission.

Robert W. Ginnane, Gen. Counsel, and Robert S. Burk, Atty., I. C. C., Washington, D. C., for defendant Interstate Commerce Commission.

Hodges, Silverstein & Harrington, Denver, Colo., Cravath, Swaine & Moore, and William J. Taylor, New York City, for intervening defendant Railway Express Agency, Inc.

Winston S. Howard and Dawson, Nagel, Sherman & Howard, Denver, Colo., William W. Schwarzer, Stephen R. Grant, and McCutchen, Doyle, Brown, Trautman & Enersen, San Francisco, Cal., for intervening defendant Greyhound Corp.

Before BREITENSTEIN, Circuit Judge, and ARRAJ and CHILSON, District Judges.


BREITENSTEIN, Circuit Judge.

This suit concerns the validity of an order of the Interstate Commerce Commission authorizing the issuance of stock by Railway Express Agency, Incorporated (REA), for sale to The Greyhound Corporation.1 Various carriers and associations protested the Commission action. The plaintiffs are five railroads, all of which are stockholders of REA. Twenty-nine motor carriers, or associations of motor carriers, have...

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